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...summer school is hardly the raison d' ether of Harvard University, and some might argue that the two-month term is downright boring. But while this school's hottest session is not marked for its fast-paced student and administration activity, history shows that interesting moments, both provocative and lighthearted, do punctuate the long summer months in Cambridge...
...like to see ourselves as the Commentary of the Harvard Community. We are not knee-jerk conservatives," says Lars T. Waldorf '85, the newspaper's managing editor, adding that attacking The Crimson's editorial policy was not the Salient's raison d'etre...
...president has swept into office on a wave of anti-govenment sentiment. When Carter arrived in the capital, his keen distrust of the natives undobtedly miffed more than one D.C. veteran. But Reagan's attacks on government cut deeper-they denounce not merely the efficiency but the very raison d'etre of fistfuls of government agencies...
Clearly, the debacle in the U.N. did nothing to advance the cause of peace in the Middle East, Rather, the Arab venture served only to bolster the hawks in Jerusalem and limit the projects for constructive dialogue--which is, after all, the raison d'etre of the U.N. If the Arabs truly want to make things better and not worse, they must avoid initiating petty, idiotic squabbles like last week...
...Marc Wolpow, a high school friend of Shelton's and a fellow first-year student, called him "probably one of the most capable and impressive individuals I have known," singling out Shelton's long-time activity in labor organization. "That was what he prided himself in--it was his raison d'etre," Wolpow added...